Two Brooklyn Children Struck in Hit and Run

Police are searching for the driver in a hit-and-run incident in Brooklyn that left a 9-year-old girl hospitalized and in critical condition.

The victim, whose name has not been released, was the second Brooklyn child to be struck by a car during the weekend. Police said she was crossing the street at Rockaway and Glenmore avenues in Brownsville at about 9 p.m. on Saturday when a tan Nissan Maxima hit her and then sped from the scene, leaving the wounded girl behind.

Emergency medical workers rushed the victim to Brookdale Hospital, where she was in critical condition yesterday. While the driver has yet to be found, police discovered the driver's empty vehicle at Park Place between East New York Avenue and Boyland Street shortly after the incident.

In a separate hit-and-run in Brooklyn early Saturday morning, a speeding car struck Rondell Grant, Jr., 11, while he was in the street outside 608 E. 42nd St., near his home on East 43rd Street. Grant was taken to Kings County Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. Later that day, police arrested a Brooklyn resident, Naquan Mandry, in connection with the collision.

Mr. Mandry, 19, has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident.